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GHANGEABLE LOCKING LABEL FOR VEHICLES. No. 583,863. Patented June 1,1897.

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NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

CASSIUS ALLEY, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES SMITH, OF SAME PLACE.

CHANGEABLE LOCKING-LABEL FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 583,863, dated June 1, 1897.

Application filed January 9, 1897. Serial No. 618,629. (No model.)

To aZl whom, it ncay concern:

Be it known that I, OAssIUs ALLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of Wayne and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Changeable Locking; Labels for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my said invention is to provide a label or indicating name-plate for vehicles, especially bicycles, which may serve the ordinary purpose of a name-plate, showing the name and address of the owner, and also a selected one of a series of words indicating the character of the right by which the bicycle is held by the party at the time in possession thereof.

It consists in a permutation-lock having an ordinary dial-plate through which the selected one of the series of words may be displayed, a plate under said dial bearing said series of words, and means whereby said platemay be locked in position to display any one of said words.

A device embodying my said invention will be first fully described, and the novel features thereof then pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevation of the front portion of a bicycle, showing my locking indicator in position thereon; Fig. 2, a perspective View of said indicator separately on substantially a full-sized scale; Fig. 3, a central sectional view thereof 011 an exaggerated scale; Fig. 4, a horizontal sectional view on the dotted line 4 4 in Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a view of the word-bearing plate separately; Fig. 6, a view of the two locking-bolts and their springs; Fig. '7, a perspective view of one of said locking-bolts separately, and Fig. 8 a perspective View of the tumblers of the permutation-lock.

In said drawings the portions. marked A represent the outer casing of the indicatinglock which embodies my invention; B, aboxlike interior frame carrying the mechanism; C, the shaft to the mechanism; D and D the tumblers of the lock proper; E and E the locking-bolts F, the name or word plate, and G the dial-plate.

The casing A is shown as a thin piece of tubing with its end formed to fit the upright 1 of the bicycle, and is usually secured to such upright at a point corresponding to the usual position of the ordinary name-plate on the. frame, as illustrated by Fig. 1 of the drawings. It has two mortises opposite each other near its outer edge, as best shown in Fig. 3, through which the points of the bolts E and E pass. An annularrim A fits over the outer end of the frame A and extends inwardly far enough to cover the joint between the dial-plate and said frame, as best shown at the upper right-hand corner of Fig. 3. It has an interior annular groove, into which the ends of the bolts E and E may pass when the device is locked.

The interior frame 13 fits closely within the outer casing A, as shown most plainly in Fig. 4, and carries the mechanism of the device.

The shaft C is mounted in bearings in the frame B and extends up through the nameplate F and dial-plate G. Upon its upper end it has a hand or arm C, which extends out and engages with a small notch formed to receive it in the rim A, and thus when said rim is turned said sh aft is revolved therewith.

A washer or collar C is placed on this shaft below those portions of the locking-bolts which pass around it and serves to keep said parts in the proper relation. At the lower end said shaft passes loosely through the perm utationlock tumblers D and D which are enabled to revolve freely around it; but a third plate C is secured thereto above said lock-tumblers by means of a bridge-tree C Said plate C as shown most plainly in Fig. 4:, has two camis done the shaft is still further revolved, disturbing the tumblers and locking the de- Vice in the usual and well known manner common to permutation locks, as will be readily understood.

The lock-tumblers D and D are of a usual construction and are provided with projections (1 and (1 which engage at the proper points, and there is preferably a washer D interposed between them and a corresponding washer between said tumbler D and the 1ocking-plate C as shown in Fig. 3.

The locking-bolts E and E are of the form most plainly shown in Fig. 7. Each has an arm e, which projects downwardly alongside the locking-plate C and lock-tumblers D and D and is adapted to engage'with the recesses or depressions therein, as shown in Fig. 4, or to be thrown out by said lockingplate to the outside of said plate and the tumblers, as shown in Fig. 3, in which case the points of said locking-bolts are driven outwardly into the annular groove in the interior of the rim A. An upwardly-projecting pin 1) on one of said locking-bolts passes into the substantially heart-shaped opening in the name-plate F, and when said bolt is moved outwardly, as stated, said pin passes into one of the notches on the outer side of said opening, which opening is clearly illustrated in detail in Fig. 5. Hanifestly when said pin is in one of said notches said plate is locked into the desired relation with said locking-bolt and cannot be moved therefrom. The said locking-bolts have wings with points 6' thereon arranged oppositely to each other, and over said points are placed springs S, which have the effect to draw said lockingbolts toward each other and thus normally keep the device in the unlocked position. The revolving of the cam loekingplate C in forcing the locking-bolts apart, as above stated, compresses the springs and locks the device.

The dial-platc G is rigidly attached to the casing A in any desired manner. It has an opening through the face through which the desired word on the nameplate F may be displayed, and it also has a curved slot through which a pin g, extending up from the name plate, passes, and by which said name-plate can be moved by hand, when unlocked, from one position to another.

The operation may be stated as follows: The lock being in unlocked condition, the

name-plate is moved by means of the pin 9 to a position which displays the desired one of the words upon said plate. The rim A is then revolved with the effect of locking the devicein the manner described. llfanifestly,

from my invention, which substantially consists in the combination, with a dial-plate, of a name-plate having various words inscribed thereon and a look by which either of them maybe locked in the desired position.

I have designed especially to apply my invention to bicycles for the purpose of enabling the party using it to disclose, in connection with the name and residence of the owner, the conditions under which it is held by any one in whose possession it may be found. The rim A bears the arbitrary inscription John Doe, \Vashington, D. 0., in the position in which the name and residence of the owner are designed to be permanently inscribed. The dial-plate shows the word Loaned displayed through the slot therein, wherethe device is assembled as shown in Fig. 2. This would indicate that John Doe had loaned his bicycle to whoever might be in possession of it. The detail view, Fig. 5, shows, in addition to the word loaned, two other words, one of which is Stolen. The utility of this is that the owner upon leaving his bicycle might look the word Stolen in View, so that any one seeing the bicycle in possession of another person would know not only who was the owner thereof, but that it had been stolen or taken without leave. Other illustrations by use of various words are obvious. The structure of the lock being brazed or otherwise firmly secured to or substantially made an integral part of the frame of the bicycle they could only be removed by substantially destroying or greatly disfiguring the bicycleframe, which would also lead to detection in case it was in unauthorized hands.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a locking-indicator; of an inclosing casing; a locking mechanism therein adapted to engage with the casing, including springs whereby the locking devices are normally held in one direction, and a cam locking-wheel whereby said mechanism is forced in the other direction; a dial-plate provided with an opening through which a word may be displayed 3 and a name-plate beneath said dial-plate, bearing the desired words, and adapted to be moved and locked by said locking mechanism so that one of said words may be displayed.

2. The combination, in a locking-indicator, of an inclosing casing, an interior frame, a pair of locking bolts moving transversely thereof in opposite directions and engaging with the casing, springs whereby said locking-bolts are normally withdrawn toward the center, a cam locking-wheel by which said bolts maybe forced outwardly and the springs compressed, and a locking mechanism eonnected therewith.

3. The combination, in a loekingdndicator, of an exterior casing, a revoluble rim thereon, a dial-plate beneath said rim rigidly atvided with arms 6 which extend out alongside the locking mechanism, and springs S interposed between arms on said lockingbolts whereby they are held normallytoward the center, and locking mechanism, whereby they may be driven outwardly from the center, substantially as shown and described.

5. The combination, in a locking-indicator, of a casing, a locking mechanism within said casing including locking-bolts, a dial-plate having an opening therein with several notches, and also bearing a corresponding number of words, a pin extending upwardly from a locking-bolt and entering an opening in said name-plate, and a dial-plate over said name-plate with an opening therein through which a selected one of said words may be displayed, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto setmy hand and seal, at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 5th day of January, A. D. 1897.

OASSIUS ALLEY. [L. s.]

WVitnesses:

CHESTER BRADFORD, JAMES A. WALsH. 

